We are not any special in our reasons why we want to switch to a vegan diet. Facts out there are very clear and there are many! Game changers for us were documentaries Cowspiracy and What the health created by filmmaker Kip Andersen who shocked us with the reality of meat, dairy, health and pharmacy industry. After watching these documentaries we stopped thinking about running marathon for a health cause like cancer or heart disease. At least till the time the world’s biggest health organizations get donations from the biggest meat polluters, promote meat recipes on their websites and ignore the real reasons of these diseases. Yes, it is meat and dairy. In the end, we figured out that everything is just a game for profit.
Many will agree that a book World Peace Diet written by Will Tuttle is almost like a “vegan bible”. It made us think about how society has chosen certain animals as edible and related others to disgusting and how we still continue to accept social rituals from our childhood. Our old beliefs have made us think that the only source of “real” protein is through consuming an excess amount of meat and dairy. We are the only species that drink milk of other species. Although, the protein in milk called casein, is too large and difficult for us to digest. Today, our demand for dairy products has become so high that to fulfil it, the modern dairy industry is artificially inseminating cows. Dairy industry causes even more pain and stress to the animals which are not only killed in the end, but are abused throughout their whole life.
But for us, environment reasons were the strongest. We can help the planet Earth and we will start from our plates. Humans are “privileged” to be on the top of the food chain and that privilege is to get all the toxins that are in the ecosystem. We are overfishing and killing the world’s kidneys, creating dangerous imbalance. We are growing livestocks to fulfil our enormous superficial need of animal protein. We greedily consume vast quantities of meat and dairy products, and blindly support the climate change industries. We have already criticized Transportation Industry for being the cause of climate change, it is now time that we open our protein-based blindfold to look at the real contributor to world’s climate change. It is time that we increase the plant-based diet to produce enough food for the whole world and to save our most important resource – Water!
Hearing thousands of facts at times is not enough; we do have to feel compassion. We as humans are changing and moving towards our own hazardous reality. Believe it or not, our practices of killing, and hunting has made us dangerous creatures, and we are losing compassion towards other species. It doesn’t surprise us that we are now killing and attacking each other, as well. Can we finally see that what goes around comes back around?
In the end, we believe that Veganism is about coexistence of all life forms.
– Katja and Yash
Environment Ninja 